| 1913 - 730 páginas
...redemptive force, has in it perennial possibilities of expansion and adaptation. "Truth," said John Milton, "is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain. If her waters flow not in a perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition." We are brought... | |
| 1913 - 544 páginas
...redemptive force, has in it perennial possibilities of expansion and adaptation. "Truth," said John Milton, "is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain. If her waters flow not in a perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition." We are brought... | |
| Stanton Coit - 1914 - 438 páginas
...proportions, breaks into lateral deformities as the only vent for its vitality." Or, to return to Milton: "Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain. If her waters flow not in a perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition. . . . He who thinks... | |
| George Stephen Painter - 1914 - 352 páginas
...may be more harmful than reasoned errors." Huxley, " Science and Culture " (" Origin of Species "). " Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in a perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition." Milton, Prose... | |
| Francis Greenwood Peabody - 1914 - 264 páginas
...very nature perennial possibilities of expansion and adaptation. "Truth," said Milton, "is compar'd in Scripture to a streaming fountain. If her waters flow not in a perpetuall progression, they sick'n into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition." 1 We are brought... | |
| Hugh De Sélincourt - 1915 - 330 páginas
...of hot cocoa before he had finished unlacing his boots. XIV HV/J kivxra he who tuts to consider thai our faith and knowledge thrives by exercise as well as our limbs and complexion. MILTON. IT was Jeremy's first visit to Professor Mansfield. One thing and another had happened to prevent... | |
| Henry Sloane Coffin - 1915 - 250 páginas
...when the Canon of the Bible was complete. How could He, if He be the living God? "Truth," said Milton, "is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in a perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition." The fountain of... | |
| John Green Curtis - 1915 - 226 páginas
...light on natural philosophy." 18° Harvey's contemporary Milton said to Parliament: "Truth is compar'd in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in a perpetuall progression, they sick'n into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition. ' ' 181 These... | |
| John Milton - 1918 - 180 páginas
...stepdame to truth : and first, by disenabling us to the maintenance of what is known already. Well knows he who uses to consider, that our faith and...to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in a perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of 20 conformity and tradition. A man may be... | |
| Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - 1919 - 712 páginas
...enjoins him to let pass nothing but what is vulgarly received already. A HERETIC IK THE TRUTH Well ixed her stately highth, and straight the doors, Opening...ample spaces o'er the smooth And level pavement: a perpetual progression they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition. A man may be a heretic... | |
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